Document 1:

Title: Petition of George Lee, 24 December 1862

Date: December 24, 1862

Source Text: A microfilm reproduction of the original document held at the National Archives and Records Administration, Microcopy 433, Reel 3. The original document is held in the Records of the District Courts of the United States, 1685–2004, National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 21. Within the National Archives' Archival Description Catalog, see ARC Identifier 4314547 / MLR Number NC-2 33 (http://arcweb.archives.gov).

Document 2:

Title: Evidence Relating to the Petition of George Lee, 24 December 1862

Date: December 24, 1862

Source Text: A microfilm reproduction of the original document held at the National Archives and Records Administration, Microcopy 520, Reel 6. The original document is held in the Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury, 1775–1978, National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 217.6.5. Within the National Archives' Archival Description Catalog, see ARC Identifier 4644616 / MLR Number A1 347 (http://arcweb.archives.gov).

Civil War Washington ID: cww.00969

TEI/XML: cww.00969.xml

 
To John A. Smith Esq​
Clerk Circuit Court of District of Columbia
Sir,

Miss Nancy Talbot of Maryland having claim to the service or labor of the undersigned and having refused or failed to file in your office the statement or schedule provided for in the 9th Section of the act of Congress entitled "an act for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia" approved April 16, 1862

You will please file the annexed schedule in pursuance of an act supplementary to the above recited act approved July 12th, 1862. The undersigned resided in the District of Columbia before and at the time of the passage of the first named bill and at the time of the passage of said supplemental act with said owners consent.


his X mark George Lee

Schedule

Name Sex Age Remarks
George Lee Male 22 years very thick upper lip
Signed in presence of

T M Blount
Decr. 24, 1862
 
paid
Application of George Lee for emancipation under "An act supplementary to the "Act for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia"
Approved July 12, 1862
Recorded in Manumission Record No. 2 folio 107
Filed December 24th 1862
The commissioners, satisfied on the testimony of L. Huyck, firm of Sweeny & Co., and of Samuel Diggs (Cold​) of the truth of the written statement, order the same to be so reported to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the Dist. of Columbia.

Wm R. Woodward
Clerk Emn​ Comrs​
Cert​ is[damage]
Idfd​ by J M Blount
Dec 24, 1862
 
H. B. Sweeney
L. Huyck

Banking House of Sweeney & Huyck

No. 517 Seventh Street

Washington, D.C. Decr 24 1862
To the Commissioners under the Act of Congress entitled "Ac Act for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia — Approved April 16, 1862
I L Huyck of the city of Washington do hereby certify that the bearer George Lee was in my service for four and one half months commencing on the 24th day of January 1862 and that I paid the wages for his services to the agent ([A W.?] Arnold) of the owner Miss Nancy Talbot; and further that it was with the consent of the agent of the owner that I employed the said George.

L Huyck
 
Dec 24, 1862
George Lee
ser​ Nancy Talbott
Saml Diggs (col​) I was living at Mr [Huck?] and hired this man for Mr [Hunck?]—he lived 4 mos​ & 15 days with Mr [Hunck?] before law passed Mr Arnold Agt​ drew wages—living here since & was here on 16 Apl—
Leonard Huyck swears to truth of his letter
 
George Lee
Decr 24.
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